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Other Designations: Inflatable Antenna Experiment. Class: Technology. Destination: Maximum Payload Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA/JPL.

Deployed from Spartan 207 5/20/96; test of inflatable antenna technology. Reentered May 22.

Typical orbit: 190 km circular orbit, 39 deg inclination.


IAE Chronology
  • 1996 May 19 - IAE - Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Shuttle. Perigee: 180 km (110 mi). Apogee: 201 km (124 mi). Inclination: 39.10 deg. Period: 88.30 min.
    LEO. Inflatable Antenna Experiment; deployed from Spartan 207 5/20/96; test of inflatable antenna technology. Reentered May 22.


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